We’ve recently received a delivery of Netonix switches. We thought we would blog about how amazing these things are, except one of our customers, Wessex Internet beat us to it! If like those guys, you’re running your own WISP and need to power Ubiquiti or MikroTik radios, we have always advocated using …
Read More »HowTo: Significantly improve slow throughput on EdgeRouter Lite PPPoE
When you add some rules into the firewall, it can be the case that Hardware Offloading is disabled without your knowledge! Before we re-enabled Hardware Offloading on the PPPoE client it was only able to handle about 140-150Mbps of throughput. After we re-enabled it, the throughput went up to 296Mbps on …
Read More »News: Ubiquiti Fixes HTTP(S) vulnerability
Ubiquiti released new firmware three weeks ago for their AirMax and AirFiber radios to fix a serious vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated users to gain access. In theory no one except internal support staff should be able to get access to any interface of your internal radio network. But just in case any one …
Read More »News: MikroTik RouterOS 6.28 released
MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOS v6.28 Here is the changelog: email – increase server greeting timeout to 60s lte – ZTE MF823 may loose configuration userman – update paypal root certificate timezone – updated timezone information to 2015b release cm2 – fixed capsman v2 100% CPU and other …
Read More »HowTo: Updating the LiniTX Controller and Unifi Software
The LinITX embedded controller has proven popular since its launch with many units sold. All feedback has been taken on board and alterations have been made to the embedded OS and configuration to make the controller as easy to use as possible. All new controllers purchased in 2015 will …
Read More »XClaim WiFi Launch
Xclaim delivers a new class of Wi-Fi with the performance and reliability your business can depend on. Xclaim’s new range of products is built upon the idea of making WiFi simple and reliable for small business and homes alike with unique app based control and now a powerful web based management …
Read More »Ubiquiti UVC Pro
The new Ubiquiti top of the range UVC Pro is here boasting some big features compared to the standard UVC products. Two of these big new features are full HD 1080p Recording at 30 frames per second and 3x optical zoom making this UVC perfect for outdoor use in area …
Read More »News: CVE-2015-0235 RouterOS NOT affected by GHOST glibc security risk
MikroTik have confirmed that no version of RouterOS suffers from the security vulnerability CVE-2015-0235. See Mikrotik Forum for confirmation.
Read More »LinITX Up and Coming 2015
2015 is going to a big year for WiFi and Routing with the launch of Xclaim and 802.11 ac coming into its own and not to mention all the new products from Ubiquiti and MikroTik. Here’s what we are going to see early this year. Xclaim Xclaim is an …
Read More »HowTo: Improved CAPsMAN Wireless Client Roaming
CAPsMAN is a very useful method of setting up a large number of APs (CAPs) in a building, but how can you help a client to roam better? The problem is that clients can get “sticky”. They refuse to disconnect themselves from an AP, even though they have actually moved their …
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